Again, a law may be both constitutional and expedient, and yet may be administered in an unjust and unfair way.

The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.

What has ever threatened our liberty and prosperity save and except this institution of Slavery?

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and revere the justice and goodness of God.

God can not be for, and against the same thing at the same time.

Let us renew our trust in god, and go forward without fear.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.